Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Tacana

Language; Endangered languages

The Tacana language is a Western Tacanan language spoken by approximately 1,800 Tacana people in Bolivia out of an ethnic population of approximately 5,000 in the jungles along the Beni and Madre de ...

Aymara

Language; Endangered languages

Aymara (Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with ...

Huilliche

Language; Endangered languages

Huilliche is an Araucanian language spoken (as of 1982) by about 2,000 ethnic Huilliche people in Chile. It is spoken in the nation's Los Lagos and Los Ríos regions; and mountain valleys, between the ...

Kawésqar

Language; Endangered languages

Kawésqar is an Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Only about 20 speakers remain, half of them on Wellington Island, off the southwestern coast of Chile. Kawésqar has ...

Kunza

Language; Endangered languages

Kunza is an extinct, unclassified language spoken in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile and southern Perú by the Lickan-antay people. The last Kunza speaker was found in 1949, although some have ...

Tinigua

Language; Endangered languages

Tinigua (Tiniguas) is an endangered language isolate spoken in Colombia. As of 2000, Tinigua had only two remaining speakers, both of whom were male. The remaining speakers live in Meta Department, ...

Cabiyarí

Language; Endangered languages

Cabiyarí (Caviyari) is an Arawakan language spoken along the Cananarí River in the Vaupes Region of Colombia in north western South America. The name is also spelled Cabiuarí, Cauyarí, Kauyarí, ...